Wringer.



W. THINKS.

WRINGER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10. 1916.

1,202,246. Patented Oct. 24,1916.

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WILLIBALD TRINKS, OF PITTSBURGH; PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY IVIESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO NATIONAL BRUSH WASHING MACHINE COMPANY, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

WRINGER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIBALD TRINKs, a citizen of the United States, and residing in the city of Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have 1nvented or discovered new and useful Im-' the bottom roll.

VVringers, as a rule, are mounted between the washing tub and the rinsing tub, and the clothes are first wrung into the rinsing tub and then, after being rinsed, are run back through the wringer and picked up on the washing side. To keep the rinsing water clean, the washing water must be prevented from being discharged by the wringlng action into the rinsing tub, and, likewise to I maintain the supply of rinsing water in the rinsing tub, the rinsing water squeezed from the clothes by the rolls must be re turned to the rinsing tub.

To insure the re'turnof all the water squeezed from the clothes, I have invented a new and improved water table mounted beneath the lower roll of thewringer and automatically tilted so as. to be disposed at the proper angle to throw the water squeezed out by the rolls back into the tub from which the clothes are being wrung.

As there is danger of the clothes becoming wrapped around the lower roll and possibly becoming injured by contact with the water table mechanism, I provide means whereby such wrapping around the lower roll is prevented and the clothes are pro jected in substantially a horizontal plane as they leave the wringer so that they clear the rolls and avoid all danger of wrappmg before they drop into the receiving tub. I

accomplish this purpose by making the upper wringer roll of slightly less diameter than the lower roll, so that, as the rolls are geared together, the upper roll will have Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24, 1916.

Application filed June 10, 1916. Serial No. 102,821-

the less peripheral speed and the effect of.

gravity upon the clothes leaving the wringer 1s thus overcome.

Other novel features of construction and arangement of parts will appear from the following description.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 1s an elevation of a clothes wringer fitted wlth my invention, the structure being shown partly in section to show parts; Fig.

2 is a vertical section taken along the line II-II n F1g. 1; Fig. 3 is a top plan View of one end of the water table showing the pivotal mounting of the same in the machlne, and Fig. 4 is a cross section of the water table dismounted, taken along the line IV-IV in Fig. 3. i

The following is a detailed description of manner. C is the frame of the machine in which said rolls are mounted. The gears a and Rare shown in dotted lines.

D is a water table which may be formed of relatively heavy galvanized sheet iron or steel presenting a flat upper surface and braced at the ends by bars 1 which may be soldered or otherwise secured in place. The water table is of proper length to extend under the lower roll B for the full length of the latter, and of suflicient width to extend for a suflicient distance to either side of the roll to catch all water'and direct it to the'tubs. v

The bars 1 at the center of their exterior faces are each provided with a pivot or journal stud 2 which fits in an open top socket 3 in each end of the frame C, located in the same vertical plane as the axis of roll 1 B. It is thus seen that the table may then be tilted on its longitudinal axis to throw the water to either side of the wringer. The frame of the wringer is provided with stops 4 at either side with which the bars 1 of the water table contact to limit the tilting of the water table. y

5 is a shell or socket member secured to the center of the water table at either end directly under the lower roll B. 6 is a plug seated in each of said socket members;

7is a seat upwardly bored in the plug 6 in which iscontained a helical spring 8 bearing against head of said plug and the bottom of the socket member, and thusmaintaining the head of said plug in resilient contact with the. perimeter of the lower roll B. p

It is evident that when the roll B is started to rotate clockwise, as shown in Fig. 2, the engagementof said roll with the plug 6 will tilt the table into the position shown in Fig. 1 so that all water squeezed from the clothes by the wringer and running down over either side of the lower roll B will be caught by the table and directed back into the tub from which the clothes are being wrung. As long as the wringer is being operated in the direction shown. the water table will beheld in that position. If the wringer be reversedyso that the roll B will rotate counter-clockwise, the water table will be automatically tilted and held in the reversed position, so that the water will be directed back into the tub at the opposite side of the wringer.

The upper or contact surfaces of the plugs 6 are preferably curved transversely of the wringer so as to maintain uniform contact with the surface of the roll B inwhatever position the Water table'may assume. Said plugs are preferably uncurved longitudinally of the wringer, so that for their full extent they contact with the roll to insure instant obedience to the movement of the roll.

The springs 8 need not be of great strength, as light contact by the plugs with the bottom roll is sufiicient to insure efiicient operation of the table.

The upper roll A is of slightly less diameter than lower roll .13, thus having a less peripheral speed than the latter. The difference' in diameter need not be greater than one-thirty-second or one-twenty-fourth of an inch. The result is that the clothes emerging from the rolls will not obey the force of gravity and become Wrapped around the bottom roll and engage the plugs 6, but will be ejected on substantially a horizontal plane or even with a slightly upward curve, thus insuring their clearance of the wringer before falling down into the tub. The difference in diameter between the rolls should not be 1700 marked, or the clothes will tend to wrap around'the upper roll.

What I desire to claim is 1. In combination with a wringer comprising a. frame and a pair of rolls mounted one above the other in said frame, a tiltable water table having its axis pivotally mounted in said frame in the same vertical plane as the axis of the lower roll, and means for maintaining frictional contact between said water table and the perimeter of the lower roll .whereby said water table is automatically tilted to carry off the water in the opposite direction to the wringing action.

2. In combination with a wringer comprising a frame and a pair of rolls mounted one above the other in said frame, a. tiltable water table pivotally mounted in said frame in the same vertical plane as the lower roll,

and a frictional contact member carried by said Water table and engaging the periphery of said lower roll whereby said table is automatically tilted to carry off the water in the opposite direction to the wringing' action.

3. In combination with a wringer comprising a frame and a pair of rolls mounted one above the other in said frame, a tiltable water table pivotally mounted insaid frame in the same vertical plane as the lower roll, and a resilient contact member carried by said water table and engaging the periphery of said lower roll whereby said table is automatically tilted to carry oil the water in the opposite direction to the wringing action.

4 In a wringer, the combination of an upper roll and a lower roll, operative connection between said rolls whereby they are rotated in opposite directions, and means for imparting a less peripheral speed to the upper roll whereby the articles being wrung are prevented from wrapping around the lower roll.

5. In a wringer, the combination of a, lower roll, an upper roll of less diameter than the lower roll, and operative connections between said rolls whereby they are rotated at the same axial speed in opposite Signed at Pittsburgh, Pa., this 3rd day of 105 June, 1916.

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